Inklings of Glory

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A deep unwelcome to the moral life pervades our culture, flattening human beings to power-driven animals (or worse, mere consumers) and depriving us of all but material hopes and earthly fears. In such a shallow world, what could be the point of justice that requires unending effort, or love that demands sacrifice?

Our contributors share how J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, and Dorothy L. Sayers responded by confessing their faith in a deeper reality-in the Christian God, his glory-reflected dignity in human beings, and his profoundly sacrificial moral demands-less with arguments, than with their imaginative works of literary art. They penned (often fantastic) stories that attune our hearts to experience "inklings of glory" within the world, through fissures of experience where the deeper reality still can be glimpsed.

We hunger not only for their stories, but also for the truth they disclose about the nature of power and its abuse, the dehumanization of work in industrial society, and the divine quality of real love issued in pity and pardon.

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